The Director’s Seminar Series, which features panels of Princeton University faculty who deliberate core questions from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective, was launched at the start of the 2022-2023 academic year by Deborah Yashar, the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
This year’s unifying theme is Global Existential Challenges.
2023-2024 Series
2022-2023 Series
Atul Kohli, David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs
Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Cotsen Faculty Fellow, and director of the Global History Lab
Jennifer Widner, professor of politics and international affairs and director of Innovations for Successful Societies
Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics
Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and director of the Program in Political Philosophy
Kim L. Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values
Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, professor of sociology and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and vice dean at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Thomas Fujiwara, associate professor of economics and public affairs and co-director of the Brazil Lab
Leonard Wantchekon, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of politics and international affairs
Elizabeth M. Armstrong, associate professor of sociology and public affairs and head of Butler College
Tanushree Goyal, assistant professor of politics and international affairs
Kristopher Velasco, assistant professor of sociology
Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs
Michael Gordin, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Zia Mian, research scientist and co-director of the Program in Science and Global Security
Rafaela Dancygier, professor of politics and international affairs and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
Filiz Garip, professor of sociology and public affairs
Anna Stilz, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute and director of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, professor of civil and environmental engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, and director of the Chadha Center for Global India
Elke Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, professor of psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs, associate director for education for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and director of the Fung Global Fellows Program
Karen Emmerich, associate professor of comparative literature and the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, director of the Program in African Studies, and director of the Africa World Initiative
Laurence Ralph, professor of anthropology
Max Weiss, associate professor of history